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Do you record fungi? If so, please fill in this short Fungus Recorder Online Survey (closes on 30th November)...
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Fungus Recorder Online Survey | Keiron Derek Brown
Do you record fungi? If so, please fill in our short Fungus Recorder Online Survey (closes on 30th November).
The survey is open nationwide and invites everyone involved in fungi recording to share t...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Do you record fungi? If so, please fill in this short Fungus Recorder Online Survey (closes on 30th November)...
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Job opportunity with the BMS: Events Officer. Part-time, flexible hours, home based. Covering conferences, training workshops, field meetings & outreach events. Working closely with staff & volunteers. Deadline: Friday 12 December 2025
Details: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/vacancies.html
Details: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/vacancies.html
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Job opportunity with the BMS: Events Officer. Part-time, flexible hours, home based. Covering conferences, training workshops, field meetings & outreach events. Working closely with staff & volunteers. Deadline: Friday 12 December 2025
Details: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/vacancies.html
Details: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/vacancies.html
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Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature
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We need a clear plan to meet the International Fungal Conservation Pledge.
Fungi are essential to healthy soils and ecosystems — they cannot remain invisible in policy.
#Biodiversity #NatureRecovery | @spun.earth
Fungi are essential to healthy soils and ecosystems — they cannot remain invisible in policy.
#Biodiversity #NatureRecovery | @spun.earth
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We need a clear plan to meet the International Fungal Conservation Pledge.
Fungi are essential to healthy soils and ecosystems — they cannot remain invisible in policy.
#Biodiversity #NatureRecovery | @spun.earth
Fungi are essential to healthy soils and ecosystems — they cannot remain invisible in policy.
#Biodiversity #NatureRecovery | @spun.earth
A few from Fishchowter's Lane, Totnes. The Daldinia has a hole in it so maybe it has been home to a Scarce Fungus beetle.
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A few from Fishchowter's Lane, Totnes. The Daldinia has a hole in it so maybe it has been home to a Scarce Fungus beetle.
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Bulgaria inquinans - Black Bulgar. Shiny little tree buttons. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Bulgaria inquinans - Black Bulgar. Shiny little tree buttons. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
Another new one I've never seen or if I have I thought it was fumosa
Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Another new one I've never seen or if I have I thought it was fumosa
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of looking around Windsor Great Park with the amazing Ted Green.
Ancient trees & very rich in fungi and invertebrates. A fascinating visit of one of our most important SACs. Appropriately (?) we had mushroom pizza in the Savill Garden restaurant for lunch.
Ancient trees & very rich in fungi and invertebrates. A fascinating visit of one of our most important SACs. Appropriately (?) we had mushroom pizza in the Savill Garden restaurant for lunch.
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yesterday I had the pleasure of looking around Windsor Great Park with the amazing Ted Green.
Ancient trees & very rich in fungi and invertebrates. A fascinating visit of one of our most important SACs. Appropriately (?) we had mushroom pizza in the Savill Garden restaurant for lunch.
Ancient trees & very rich in fungi and invertebrates. A fascinating visit of one of our most important SACs. Appropriately (?) we had mushroom pizza in the Savill Garden restaurant for lunch.
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Very pleased to have spotted Helvella macropus - Felt Saddle. Only the second time I’ve found it. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very pleased to have spotted Helvella macropus - Felt Saddle. Only the second time I’ve found it. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends
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A selection of other fungi from Cavenham Heath NNR from todays Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray: Steccherinum ochraceum, Ramaria cf stricta, Scarlet Caterpillar Club (Cordyceps militaris) and Cowpat Gem (Cheilymenia granulata).
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A selection of other fungi from Cavenham Heath NNR from todays Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray: Steccherinum ochraceum, Ramaria cf stricta, Scarlet Caterpillar Club (Cordyceps militaris) and Cowpat Gem (Cheilymenia granulata).
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Mycena haematopus. Happy Halloween 🎃 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Mycena haematopus. Happy Halloween 🎃 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
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🍄🎉 FunDive Bingo!
We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.
We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🍄🎉 FunDive Bingo!
We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.
We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.
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🔍🔑Keys on the website!
You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)
You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🔍🔑Keys on the website!
You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)
You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)
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My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
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For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
View of Fun with aquatic hyphomycetes
fieldmycology.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
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Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
Vol. 26 No. 3 (2025): Field Mycology - October 2025
| Field Mycology
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
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Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus - Cedarwood Waxcap. The ones I've found before didn't have a very strong smell, but this one was intensely perfumed #FungiFriends
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus - Cedarwood Waxcap. The ones I've found before didn't have a very strong smell, but this one was intensely perfumed #FungiFriends
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Waxcap 16 - Citrine Waxcap (Hygrocybe citrinovirens). Generally an early fruiting species. The conical cap and the usually fibrous stipe are a yellowish green. Gills are pale white. Quite a large dry species, occasionally with hints of orange.
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Waxcap 16 - Citrine Waxcap (Hygrocybe citrinovirens). Generally an early fruiting species. The conical cap and the usually fibrous stipe are a yellowish green. Gills are pale white. Quite a large dry species, occasionally with hints of orange.
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Another of the topnotch Waxcaps is the Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). This year it is fruiting in a smaller size than I normally get here, but that earthy mix of browns and greys and the bright red colour that quickly results from bruising are distinctive.
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Another of the topnotch Waxcaps is the Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). This year it is fruiting in a smaller size than I normally get here, but that earthy mix of browns and greys and the bright red colour that quickly results from bruising are distinctive.
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Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
#mycology #research #publishing
#mycology #research #publishing
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
#mycology #research #publishing
#mycology #research #publishing
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Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends
This long term project sounds like fun and a good idea for future mycologists. It also reflects the fact that many organisms live a lot longer than humans.
sclerotiaproject.org
We need a UK equivalent , but what would we call it?
sclerotiaproject.org
We need a UK equivalent , but what would we call it?
The Sclerotia Project
sclerotiaproject.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This long term project sounds like fun and a good idea for future mycologists. It also reflects the fact that many organisms live a lot longer than humans.
sclerotiaproject.org
We need a UK equivalent , but what would we call it?
sclerotiaproject.org
We need a UK equivalent , but what would we call it?
On a very small patch of grass next to Silver Birch ,near me.
October 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
On a very small patch of grass next to Silver Birch ,near me.
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The beautiful Cortinarius flexipes - Pelargonium Webcap. Lots popping up in the plantations. #FungiFriends
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The beautiful Cortinarius flexipes - Pelargonium Webcap. Lots popping up in the plantations. #FungiFriends
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Waxcap 6 - Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus). Can be an incredible variety of colours 😍. Typically starts green and turns dark yellow then to white. Can also be blue through to pink. Is said to always retain some green at the top of the stipe but this isn't always true. Cap and stipe are slimy.
October 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Waxcap 6 - Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus). Can be an incredible variety of colours 😍. Typically starts green and turns dark yellow then to white. Can also be blue through to pink. Is said to always retain some green at the top of the stipe but this isn't always true. Cap and stipe are slimy.